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DOW 9325.01 144.32 +1.57% NASDAQ 1720.95 22.43 +1.32% S&P 968.75 14.66 +1.54%   Friday, Oct. 31, 2008   CNBC TASK FORCE     Trish Regan, CNBC Anchor and Reporter It was the worst October since 1987, but some investors say there is a light at the end of this seemingly bleak tunnel. The commercial paper markets are improving, the credit markets appear to be out of the intensive care unit, and crude oil futures plummeted this past month. br>Still, there are challenges ahead. Mass layoffs are at their highest level since 9-11, and there is likely more pain to come as corporations continue to slash their ranks. A declining economy is a difficult cycle to break. We all know that stock market bottoms are impossible to call. So the key to successful investing right now is: Know your own appetite for risk. Think hard about what you are willing to lose, in exchange for a potential gain. Investing right now can be scary, but as the economy navigates its way through this global credit crisis, remember how the word 'crisis' is defined in Chinese: Danger and opportunity. And hey, at least October is over.     WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW     Prep Your Portfolio for Next Week Greg Estes, portfolio manager at Intrepid Capital Funds, and Alan Vales, vice president at Hillard Lyons, named stocks to help investors build and strengthen their portfolios ahead of next week's trading. ...read more     Stocks End Crazy Month on High Note Stocks pulled off a second straight day of gains, capping the market's worst month in a decade and the worst October since the crash of 1987. Traders noted that pension funds were buying stocks to rebalance their portfolios as today is the last day of the October....read more     Dow Jumps Nearly 200 in Another Photo Finish U.S. stocks had another wild swing in the final 15 minutes of trading that pumped up the Dow from a gain of about 50 points to nearly 200 points as traders shrugged off this morning's GDP report that showed the economy is shrinking....read more     TODAY'S TOP 5 VIDEOS     1. Bernanke On Mortgage Market BP Capital has recently moved its assets to cash and discussing his plan for energy with Boone Pickens, BP Capital CEO     2. McCain On the Economy Discussing the economy as the number one issue in the campaign, with Republican Presidential candidate John McCain.     3.Built On "Hot Air" If the subprime crisis was built on air, the coming credit card crisis is built on hot air, says Enzio von Pfeil, CEO of EconomicClock.com. He explains what he means and why he believes this is the next shoe to drop, with CNBC's Amanda Drury.     4.Gun Sales Shoot Up A look at gun sales and the economy, with Ted Novin, National Shooting Sports Federation director, public affairs.     5. Stop Trading, Listen to Cramer! Mad Money's Jim Cramer shares his stock picks and pans with CNBC's Erin Burnett.     Click here to view all of today's top videos on CNBC.com     CNBC.com BLOG OF THE DAY     Layoffs: Which Way Does A Company Cut? There's a debate in the age of layoffs on just what's the right way to trim the work staff....read more See All CNBC.com Blogs   Watch CNBC live on your desktop. Click here to find out how.   NEWS MARKETS EARNINGS INVESTING VIDEO CNBC TV CNBC PLUS   (c) 2008 CNBC, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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DOW 9180.69 189.73 +2.11% NASDAQ 1698.52 41.31 +2.49% S&P 954.09 24.00 +2.58%   Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008   CNBC TASK FORCE     Bob Pisani, CNBC "On-Air Stocks" Editor The Dow has traded in a "tight" 290-point range today. Sound familiar? Well, that's what happened yesterday, too… until the last hour of trading when the markets' volatility reappeared, especially in the last few minutes of the trading day. Just before midday, the markets hit the lows of the day, but since then, they have gradually climbed back up and are now re-approaching the morning's highs. The advance has been fairly broad-based as advancers are leading decliners 4 to 1 at the NYSE. Utilities, energy, and tech stocks have regained the momentum that they lost this morning and are leading the markets' move up this afternoon. What have been volatile today are the commodities and commodity stocks. Commodities, which started the day modestly higher, turned south as the dollar strengthened throughout the morning. At their settlement today, metals we were weak as copper finished down 9%, aluminum ended down 4%, and gold finished down 2%...read more     WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW     Three Reasons Why Stocks Have Become So Volatile Bear markets are noted for their volatility—but more than 300 points in six minutes? It's not as crazy as it sounds. Some analysts see several important factors contributing to the type of moves that the market witnessed at the close of trading on Wednesday, when the Dow Jones Industrials plummeted from a 250-point gain to a 72-point loss before most people had even realized what happened...read more     Risk Appetite Coming Back Asian share markets rallied and the euro surged on Thursday on initial signs that investors are rediscovering an appetite for risk in response to global efforts to prevent the financial crisis from leading to a deep recession. Hours after the Federal Reserve met market expectations by slashing its main policy rate to 1 percent, Taiwan and Hong Kong took up the rate-cutting baton and speculation persisted that Japan would follow suit on Friday...read more     Dow Jumps Nearly 200 in Another Photo Finish U.S. stocks had another wild swing in the final 15 minutes of trading that pumped up the Dow from a gain of about 50 points to nearly 200 points as traders shrugged off this morning's GDP report that showed the economy is shrinking....read more     TODAY'S TOP 5 VIDEOS     1. BP Capital Loses $2B in Oil BP Capital has recently moved its assets to cash and discussing his plan for energy with Boone Pickens, BP Capital CEO     2. Ackman Plays Insight on his plan for Target and other investments, with William Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management managing partner and Larry Lindsey, The Lindsey Group CEO     3.Black and Blue Gold Tumbling oil prices take its toll on BP Capital, with Boone Pickens, BP Capital CEO and Larry Lindsey, The Lindsey Group CEO     4.Slim On the Sidelines Talking with one of the two richest men in the world, with billionaire Carlos Slim and CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.     5. Stop Trading, Listen to Cramer! Mad Money's Jim Cramer shares his stock picks and pans with CNBC's Erin Burnett.     Click here to view all of today's top videos on CNBC.com     CNBC.com BLOG OF THE DAY     The Beatles Go Digital—Finally! Today will mark an auspicious day for the music business, and maybe the first big hint that the Beatles may finally be on the way to Apple's iTunes....read more See All CNBC.com Blogs   Watch CNBC live on your desktop. Click here to find out how.   NEWS MARKETS EARNINGS INVESTING VIDEO CNBC TV CNBC PLUS   (c) 2008 CNBC, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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